Pierre Brunet (figure skater)

Pierre Brunet
Full name	Pierre Émile Ernest Brunet
nation	France
birthday	June 28, 1902
place of birth	Le Quesne, Picardy
size	168 cm
date of death	July 27, 1991
Place of death	Boyne City, Michigan, USA
Career
discipline	Pair skating, single skating
Partner	Andrée Joly
End of career	1936
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 4 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze Chamonix 1924 Couples gold St. Moritz 1928 Couples gold Lake Placid 1932 Couples  World figure skating championships silver Vienna 1925 Couples gold Berlin 1926 Couples gold London 1928 Couples gold New York City 1930 Couples gold Montréal 1932 Couples  European figure skating championships gold Paris 1932 Couples

Pierre Émile Ernest Brunet (born June 28, 1902 in Le Quesne , Picardie , † July 27, 1991 in Boyne City , Michigan ) was a French figure skater who started in single and pair skating .

In the individual run, Brunet was French champion seven times (1924 to 1925 and 1927 to 1931) and took part in a world championship , namely in 1931 in Berlin . There he placed ninth. He also took part in two Olympic Games . In 1924 in Chamonix he finished eighth and in 1928 in St. Moritz he came seventh.

Brunet was far more successful in pair skating with Andrée Joly . In total, they were eleven times French champions (1924-1933 and 1935) and took part in five world championships. At their first world championship in 1925 in Vienna they won the silver medal behind Herma Szabó and Ludwig Wrede . In all other participations, 1926 in Berlin , 1928 in London , 1930 in New York and 1932 in Montréal , the couple became world champions . In 1932, the Brunets won the gold medal in their home town of Paris, when they only participated in the European Championship . Brunet and Joly played a total of three Olympic Games together. In 1924 in Chamonix they won the bronze medal behind Helene Engelmann and Alfred Berger from Austria and Ludowika and Walter Jakobsson from Finland, in 1928 in St. Moritz and 1932 in Lake Placid they became Olympic champions . In protest against the Nazis, they renounced their possible title defense at the Olympic Winter Games in 1936 , but had not contested a World Cup since 1932.

The couple ended their amateur careers in 1936. They became professionals and emigrated to the USA in 1940 . They later became coaches. Her students included Carol Heiss and Scott Hamilton .

Pierre Brunet and Andrée Joly were married in 1929. The couple had a son, Jean-Pierre , who, along with Donna Jeanne Pospisil, became US champions in sports couples in 1945 and 1946 . Jean-Pierre died in a car accident in 1948 at the age of 19.

Pierre and Andrée Brunet were inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1976 .

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931
winter Olympics	8th.				7th
World championships								9.
French championships	1.	1.		1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Pair skating

(with Andrée Joly )

Competition / year	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935
winter Olympics	3.				1.				1.
World championships		2.	1.		1.		1.		1.
European championships									1.
French championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.		1.

Web links

• Pierre Brunet in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )